# φαντασία
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā), from φᾰντᾰ́ζω (phăntắzō, “I make visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰan.ta.sí.aː/ → /ɸan.taˈsi.a/ → /fan.daˈsi.a/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pʰan.ta.sí.aː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /pʰan.taˈsi.a/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ɸan.taˈsi.a/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /fan.taˈsi.a/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /fan.daˈsi.a/

### Noun

φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ • (phăntăsĭ́ā) f (genitive φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
* look, appearance, presentation, display
* showy appearance, pomp, pageantry
* perception, impression
* image

#### Related terms

* ἀφᾰντᾰσίαστος (aphăntăsíastos, “not manifested”)
* ἀφᾰντᾰσίωτος (aphăntăsíōtos, “unable to imagine”)
* ἀφᾰ́ντᾰστος (aphắntăstos, “without imagination”)
* εὐφᾰντᾰσίωτος (euphăntăsíōtos, “gifted with a vivid imagination”)
* εὐφᾰ́ντᾰστος (euphắntăstos, “imaginative”)
and see at φᾰντᾰ́ζω, φαίνω (phaínō)

#### Descendants

* → Latin: phantasia, fantasia (see there for further descendants)

### References

* “φαντασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “φαντασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* φαντασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* G5325 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. fancy idem, page 306.imagination idem, page 416.

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ (phăntăsĭ́ā), via Italian fantasia from the Ancient Greek.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fan.daˈsi.a/
* Hyphenation: φα‧ντα‧σί‧α

### Noun

φαντασία • (fantasía) f (plural φαντασίες)
* imagination, fantasy
* (music, form) fantasia (when referring to specific title, it is written with capital Φ)
    Χρωματική Φαντασία και Φούγκα του Μπαχ ― Chromatikí Fantasía kai Foúgka tou Bach ― Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue by Bach

#### Derived terms

* επιστημονική φαντασία f (epistimonikí fantasía, “science fiction”)
* κατά φαντασίαν ασθενής m (katá fantasían asthenís, “imaginary invalid”) (title of play Le Malade imaginaire by Molière)
Expressions:
* αποκύημα φαντασίας (apokýima fantasías, “figment of imagination”)
* αρρωστημένη φαντασία (arrostiméni fantasía, “perverted imagination”)
* αφήνω ελεύθερη τη φαντασία (afíno eléftheri ti fantasía)
* αχαλίνωτη φαντασία (achalínoti fantasía, “unbridled imagination”)
* γέννημα φαντασίας (génnima fantasías, “figment of imagination”)
* εξημμένη φαντασία (eximméni fantasía, “aroused imagination”)
* επιστρατεύω τη φαντασία μου (epistratévo ti fantasía mou, “enlist/use my imagination”)
* ευρηματική φαντασία (evrimatikí fantasía, “inventive imagination”)
* ζωηρή φαντασία (zoïrí fantasía, “vivid imagination”)
* η φαντασία καλπάζει (i fantasía kalpázei, “literally: the imagination gallops”)
* καλλιτεχνική φαντασία (kallitechnikí fantasía, “artistic imagination”)
* κεντρίζω τη φαντασία (kentrízo ti fantasía, “stimulate the imagination”)
* νοσηρή φαντασία (nosirí fantasía, “perverted imagination”)
* στερούμαι φαντασίας (steroúmai fantasías, “lack imagination”)

#### Related terms

* ονειροφαντασιά f (oneirofantasiá, “a dream's fantasy”) (poetic)
* υπνοφαντασιά f (ypnofantasiá, “a sleep's fantasy”)
* φαντασιοκόπημα n (fantasiokópima, “fantasising”)
* φαντασιοκοπία f (fantasiokopía, “fantasising”)
* φαντασιοκόπος (fantasiokópos, “fantasiser”)
* φαντασιοκοπώ (fantasiokopó, “fantasise”)
* φαντασιόπληκτος (fantasiópliktos, “fantasiser”)
* φαντασιοπληξία f (fantasioplixía, “fantasising”)
* φαντασιώνω (fantasióno, “fantasise”)
* φαντασίωση f (fantasíosi, “fantasising”)
* and see at φαντάζω (fantázo)

### Further reading

* φαντασία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$